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Born December 8, 1902 • Sagua la Grande • Cuba
Died September 11, 1982 (aged 79) • Paris • France
Movement / Style Cubism • Surrealism
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Duchamp, Marcel
Marcel Duchamp
French artist
Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia
French artist
Mondrian, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1942.
Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter
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Paul Klee
Swiss-German artist
Braque, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1956
Georges Braque
French artist
Frida Kahlo stands at an easel, holding a paintbrush and working on a portrait of a woman in a white dress, looking toward the camera.
Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter
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Albert Gleizes
French painter and writer
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish artist
Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti
Swiss sculptor and painter
Fernand Léger, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1941.
Fernand Léger
French painter
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Leonora Carrington
English-born Mexican painter and sculptor
Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning
American painter and writer
Leonor Fini
Leonor Fini
Argentine-born artist
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
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Kay Sage
American painter and poet
The artist and his icon
René Magritte
Belgian artist
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí
Spanish artist
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Sir Roland Penrose
British artist, collector, and writer
Eileen Agar
Eileen Agar
British artist

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